Archive - 2005

December 13th

As everybody around here probably knows, Corey Patterson is among five Cubs (Carlos Zambrano, Jerry Hairston, Jr, Juan Pierre, and Will Ohman are the others) who must be offered salary arbitration by next Tuesday, or they can become free-agents.
I'm sure Jim Hendry will tender the offer of arbitration to Zambrano, Pierre, and Ohman, and PROBABLY to Hairston, but I'm beginning to wonder if Patterson might not get non-tendered.
Here's why:

November 16th

With a PTBNL sent to the Cubs in return. The brief announcement can be found here.
Leicester, 26, has not yet figured out how to get out left-handed hitters, as his career line of .391/.513/.641/1.153 indicates. But I think the real ground for his relocation is that in 2005 he couldn't get out right-handed hitters, either.
2004: .200/.221/.314/.536
2005: .238/.393/.429/.821

November 15th

As expected, Lee got jobbed out of the MVP and ended up third behind Albert Pujols and Andruw Jones. I can live with losing to Pujols, it was a tossup between the two and team records were going to give Pujols the push. But worst of all, Lee only received one first place vote and only one second place vote. Absurdity, in my opinion. Actually the whole vote was an absurdity.

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Cubs MLB Roster:

40 players are onMLB RESERVE LIST(roster is full), plus four players are on 60-DAY INJURED LISTand one player is on RESTRICTED LIST37 players are on MLB ACTIVE LIST, plusthree players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to the minors (one is on RESTRICTED LIST) and one player is on 10-DAY INJURED LIST